826 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZ ET TE. 
evident that a great desideratum in the treatment of 
2 in order to obtain a fibre of good and even quality, 
ted for manufacture, was the A satay 0 an 
N which bo pape could 7 0 ived at, a 
and loss arisi 8 ions of —. 
8 3 sed by in — idual growers 
order to attain this end, it appea 
f ur sho 
nd the waste 
ystem 
obvi 
red requisite that 
d purchase it fro m, and convert it, by some 
effective process, into marketable 8 
ve roject having this w has, conse- 
8 met 2 guent attention ma the et es Flax 
d ubli a plan odying points 
oe eres 2 having tan lately . forward by 
Mr. Watt, and put in operation at 
r was held on October 2 
Mr. Watt’s — may be ew . as fol- 
lows :—The Fla t the works by 
Flax 
information 
abo 
en 
e stooping of Flax, both by ‘oud 
elfast, a meeting of | i 
0 
— — 1 r of wha 
the soil woul 
ax, They believe that, before long, 
en by several indiv iduals who are 
5 trials on the spinning 
, of the finer sorts. 
will in es 
ut to carr 
y ou 
and à manufacinring d departm | ou 
ittee conceive 1 — t the most prominent 
aid novel feature of this sire ener in the substitution 
on, or softening, for fermentation. In the 
and “se oe er, the ery | 
s freed from the substance termed gun 
postion of 5 teres Se in 
n of the stem loosens the cuticle and gum, which 
E rther rare’ rated mechanically in the crushin 
operation, and, after the drying o 
——— 
whi 
n let off into rivers, is a matter 
, descend 
r, saturat 
us and non- — 5 of the 
This liquid is s dian off from an 
te, splitting 
stra ing fre ee from all 
de saa ean is then easil y dried, and in a 
is ready for seutchin 
erime ental ‘al, personally fet eee 
gas “se com 
135 lbs. from ewt. o with se 
from the ewt. of a withent-s seed ; 264 Ibs. 
ewt. of steeped and dr 
straw. 
The time time occupiod ir in actual labour i in the processes, 
of 
sary, in ell. organ 
5 Flax straw into fibre for the e : 
cost se operations, in mae: > experiment, 
ass he reasons 
d, appeared 
ton 4 clean fibre, for n 
en 
ex 
A porion of the fibre aripi 
to be hackled, an upon it. 
561. to 70 
the — of the stricks of 2 sent, 
n the hackle was considered qui 
of the 
ton, according to 
‘and the yield o 
On the results of this experim 
sarily of a limited 
oe a nature, 
to speak for themsely 
— postiar the qualities 
3 
8 
of Flax fibre, pre ared by 
sae teat se p: y 
e 
—— form 
ing it. 
ndensed wate’ gt endix of t 
in fact, a decoction of ‘the extractive e number of persons empl 
of Mr, Watt's system of preparing Flax fi 
ding 
Placing in vat 
Cleaning eeed 
us with thre 
2, Seeds and Roots; 3, Tp 
18 Ibs. v 
from the 
M of 
Piccadilly, exhibit fine specimens of Man 
b. 
— 
C 
Th 
doubtless Bell’s re 
ill, th 
Q 
ross 
seth very forcibly of that 
o this report i is a note of the time occupied 
A 
in the dierent processes pity — * aie | and of | as*som 
the num e 
spià may, on mo 
ed experience, be — fully to warrant the high 
ed from what is y known con- 
(Signed on a behalf of the — — D 
RichanD Niven, Chairman 
Belfast, Nov. 3, 1852, 
Note 
the ao trial 
fibre 
Time 
occupied, 
No. of persons 
employed. 
is, openl 
e 
a 
ch causes some | im 
| Strathmore for the last 20 year years „ and man 
usions conse 
gin of 
quently arrived * uy hat 
the ericans, 
0 
y a ‘cat brotherly, without a 
= Americans 3 n for what they 
learn eir ps ten rather 
re 
re under 
bout 
patent, “Having fallen 20 years 
be foun 
e knife now mad sO as 
2 cutting edge: the Tatteri ina petig platform and 
wi the’s broadcast manure drill has also 
mprovements by Mr. Garrett, Se py 
for sm sa gr 5 = to adapt it for 
f Bea j ow: ed, exhibited 
a a pidit 5 X plough, with lower necks, for gi 
pit ngs a as required, 
e on mr in the 
of 
3 
Women r 
‘land boys: Hours. | Min, 
oe 
s.. 
Taking out of vat 
8 and putting in 
Rolling i for sontehing 
Stricking for ditto 
Total 
49 
p 
r ton.— e above 
— [The 
a report to t 
IMPLEMENT SHOW—BAKER STREET. 
e subjects: I, Agricul 
the show was super 
Halfmoon-street, 
old Wurzel 
. Colli 
* 
. Gibbs, 
rzel, Swedes, 
es, &e., of | 
mbers 
the space allotted 
azaar to have exhibited them te to 
e most attractive of whole 
apie eee. exhibited by 
8 out dere remin 
N. Cormiek's in — a 
eee be taken By es, 
dreamt that such had been in spent 
the public, 
22 
E * 
Rei vm 
— 2 > 
alace, 1851. 
having 
e Flax Society of Belfast on the merits | im 
of the plan described.] l 
r 
y 
> 2 than has yet been 
— itm 
chaff- tag so have Ba rrett, E 
d also in their Barley hummeller. . 
mproved and drill; 
a 
ments since the Lewes meeti 
their menten individually. 
ing betwee 
a 
in par 
eden eee 
when it has 
G 
facture 
done. In this 
are a long way behind 
armers do not pe cher "e 
al benefits from 
science, hence conclusi 
POULTRY. 
sli —Few 
HITCHIN POULTRY amateurs 
| exhibited, the neces e, 
year, when 
Sere 
— hem. 2 
